Burden of Dreams Cinematographer Brandon Trost teams with director-actor James Franco on The Disaster Artist, the real-life tale of the making of an epically bad - and beloved - movie. By Iain Marcks *|* 90 January 2018 T here's a scene early in The Disaster Artist when aspiring actors Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero - portrayed by brothers James and Dave Franco, respectively - play a clumsy game of catch. They're making plans to move to Los Angeles and become big movie stars, but Greg has some misgivings about their chances for success. "Don't worry," Wiseau drawls. He fumbles the football and returns it with a flimsy toss. "You just have to be the best you can be." This simple, naïve wisdom is all it takes to set the two men on the path that leads to The Room, Wiseau's selffinanced, $6 million independent feature debut - a film so epically ill-conceived it's been dubbed "the Citizen Kane of American Cinematographer